Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism
Join us for a TORCH Book at Lunchtime online webinar on Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, edited by Professor Abigail Green and Professor Simon Levis Sullam.

About the book:

The emancipatory promise of liberalism – and its exclusionary qualities – shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire. Yet historians have mostly understood the relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism as a European story, defined by the collapse of liberalism and the Holocaust. This volume challenges that perspective by taking a global approach. It takes account of recent historical work that explores issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, but which has done so without taking much account of Jews. Individual essays explore how liberalism, citizenship, nationality, gender, religion, race functioned differently in European Jewish heartlands, in the Mediterranean peripheries of Spain and the Ottoman empire, and in the North American Atlantic world.
Date: 9 June 2021, 13:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speakers: Professor Abigail Green (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Levis Sullam (University of Oxford), Professor Adam Sutcliffe (University of Oxford), Dr Kei Hiruta (University of Oxford)
Organiser: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of: Book at Lunchtime
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-at-lunchtime-jews-liberalism-antisemitism
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Maya Little